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On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:38 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 08:49 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: |
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> > Comments inline: |
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> > moriah ~ # df -h |
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> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> > udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev |
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> Hmm, mine takes 116k, how comes your /dev uses 2.6M? |
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everything thats not on a LVM volume sits here. the biggest |
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is /root/.ccache (<800M, easily moved elsewhere) and /lib/modules |
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> > cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache |
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> This looks to be the same as /, what is it good for, could you explain this? |
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Its used by fbsplash - never looked at why |
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> > /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr |
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> > /dev/vg1/var 48G 2.3G 46G 5% /var |
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> I doubt you'll ever get them filled. |
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I have filled them in the past: my desktop is currently sitting at 74% |
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for both, but I recently went mad archiving to make room. |
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> > /dev/vg1/tmp 16G 33M 16G 1% /tmp |
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> I use tmpfs for this, but that really depends. |
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I have done that in the past - but I found sometimes I just had to have |
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the room (zipping 2G plus archives for instance) |
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> > /dev/vg1/home 77G 26G 52G 34% /home |
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> As said before I prefer per-user volumes (and use the automounter to mount |
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> them on demand). |
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extra complexity - I dont need remote mounts, and I am the main user. |
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If you use an automount on the same machine Ive gotta ask "why bother". |
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In my experience automount is just another thing that can and sometimes |
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does go wrong so it has to be justified. |
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Experience shows me that a single partition is almost maintenance free. |
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If you fill a disk, it does come to a halt but its easily fixed. Ive |
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found inadequate a swap more serious problem. |
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Ive found that maintenance usually occurs far more often on |
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multi-partition systems simply because space that could be used is not |
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accessible. Multi-partitions on the other hand always waste space |
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necessitating solutions like LVM. For me LVM gives the advantage in |
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that I can add space (extra disks) whenever I like and fill it without |
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having to go through major pain. In the light of experience, I am not |
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sure I will go for multi-partitions on my next server as laptops/small |
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desktop systems I run/have run seem better without it, but I will |
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definitely be going LVM. I am sure that if I had a number of regular |
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users, a separate /home partition wold be useful but I think that the |
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old idea of partitioning everything is actually more wasteful/nearly |
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useless on modern systems. |
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BillK |
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